The Simulator - Nov 11th-18th

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  • Unknown
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    orbitalint wrote:
    GrumpySmurf1002 wrote:
    Might be because I have a 1-cover Mystique, but had a devil of a time with the GSBW-Deadpool-Thor node.

    Yeah, that node has been giving me fits. I finally settled into LCap and Hood but still wipe about 30% of the time. I do have all 3 Mystique powers available though. Her purple and hood make it so none of those big abilities go off with Cap stuns when needed.

    It's pretty standard fare - absolute garbage lineups which are made outside the realm of lucid thought. I guess we should be thankful that we were able to acquire yet another marginal character otherwise we'd be locked out essentially of the event - and lord knows if you don't have leveled up 94 range villains you'd be out of the pvp mode even with 166 level heroes.

    Between a useless mystique and an exquisite pairing of enemies to maximize their cheapness ( colossus leading while spider man puts shield tiles all over the place, or blade turns every red tile to a damage tile while daken parts your hair ) they, again, have managed to grind down general playing enjoyment to a point that it almost qualifies for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

    Add the creative leader boards ( hey I'm top 20 in 1 and top 10 in the other but number 40 overall ) and you have what outside of this game would be an outlier of fail - but here, is business as usual. LOL.
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    tuscan panty raider wrote:
    Add the creative leader boards ( hey I'm top 20 in 1 and top 10 in the other but number 40 overall ) and you have what outside of this game would be an outlier of fail - but here, is business as usual. LOL.

    Let me go a little slower with the maths for you this time. There are 200 people in a subevent brackets. There are 1000 people in the main event brackets.

    You are in the top 10% of one subevent, the top 5% in the other sub event, and the top 4% of the main event. Again, your logic is the fail, quit trying to invent problems when there are plenty of legitimate ones.
  • Ebolamonkey84
    Ebolamonkey84 Posts: 509 Critical Contributor
    tuscan panty raider wrote:
    orbitalint wrote:
    GrumpySmurf1002 wrote:
    Might be because I have a 1-cover Mystique, but had a devil of a time with the GSBW-Deadpool-Thor node.

    Yeah, that node has been giving me fits. I finally settled into LCap and Hood but still wipe about 30% of the time. I do have all 3 Mystique powers available though. Her purple and hood make it so none of those big abilities go off with Cap stuns when needed.

    It's pretty standard fare - absolute garbage lineups which are made outside the realm of lucid thought. I guess we should be thankful that we were able to acquire yet another marginal character otherwise we'd be locked out essentially of the event - and lord knows if you don't have leveled up 94 range villains you'd be out of the pvp mode even with 166 level heroes.

    Between a useless mystique and an exquisite pairing of enemies to maximize their cheapness ( colossus leading while spider man puts shield tiles all over the place, or blade turns every red tile to a damage tile while daken parts your hair ) they, again, have managed to grind down general playing enjoyment to a point that it almost qualifies for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

    Add the creative leader boards ( hey I'm top 20 in 1 and top 10 in the other but number 40 overall ) and you have what outside of this game would be an outlier of fail - but here, is business as usual. LOL.

    The discrepancy between your sub ranks and your main is due to subs being a 200 person bracket and the main being 1000. If you are top 20 in a group of 200, it's very reasonable to be 40th overall.
  • Unknown
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    hex706f726368 wrote:
    Phantron wrote:
    Right now the prospect of hitting 160K doesn't look too good if it's +33% points per round like past for most people (you'd need 40K before this round ends). Let's hope it's higher than the historical average (which has happened, but not often).

    really? there's 8+ hours left and i'm already at 32k. and that's with being way off the pace and rubberbanding aggressively in the hard sub. some in my main are already over 60k. 40k looks like it is in the bag for this first round, probably more. if it's 33% point inflation, the only thing impeding the final progression award will be scaling, imo.

    That was more of a general statement. I should be able to hit 40K but I am not the average guy. You've to be doing a pretty decent pace at 33%. If it's +50% there's more room to slack, but not too much more. Of course the top of the bracket is going to hit it easily, but with rubberband being weak like it's always been that's not going to mean much. You'll probably settle at around 1K per essential on the hard which is a lot but it's not going to make 40K in one or even a couple passes. The missions should get easier since having Mystique as essential is very limiting even factoring in scaling.
  • Unknown
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    Ebolamonkey84 wrote:
    tuscan panty raider wrote:
    orbitalint wrote:
    GrumpySmurf1002 wrote:
    Might be because I have a 1-cover Mystique, but had a devil of a time with the GSBW-Deadpool-Thor node.

    Yeah, that node has been giving me fits. I finally settled into LCap and Hood but still wipe about 30% of the time. I do have all 3 Mystique powers available though. Her purple and hood make it so none of those big abilities go off with Cap stuns when needed.

    It's pretty standard fare - absolute garbage lineups which are made outside the realm of lucid thought. I guess we should be thankful that we were able to acquire yet another marginal character otherwise we'd be locked out essentially of the event - and lord knows if you don't have leveled up 94 range villains you'd be out of the pvp mode even with 166 level heroes.

    Between a useless mystique and an exquisite pairing of enemies to maximize their cheapness ( colossus leading while spider man puts shield tiles all over the place, or blade turns every red tile to a damage tile while daken parts your hair ) they, again, have managed to grind down general playing enjoyment to a point that it almost qualifies for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

    Add the creative leader boards ( hey I'm top 20 in 1 and top 10 in the other but number 40 overall ) and you have what outside of this game would be an outlier of fail - but here, is business as usual. LOL.

    The discrepancy between your sub ranks and your main is due to subs being a 200 person bracket and the main being 1000. If you are top 20 in a group of 200, it's very reasonable to be 40th overall.

    Yeah i get that but it is my God given right to find if annoying and consider it a bad setup. Thanks for the reply though (honestly).

    I would respond to that other guy but he keeps pming me asking to cyber, for a date, and nudes and id rather ignore him.
  • AXP_isme
    AXP_isme Posts: 809 Critical Contributor
    Anyone joined recently? Haven't started yet and don't want to end up in the same position as the Juggs event when I joined at #930 or so with a 60k deficit to 1st place...
  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards
    AXP_isme wrote:
    Anyone joined recently? Haven't started yet and don't want to end up in the same position as the Juggs event when I joined at #930 or so with a 60k deficit to 1st place...
    Half of the forumites probably joined the current bracket. If you are prepared to grind like mad you'll get an easy t2 in there because none of us will be trying for placement.
  • Unknown
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    There's also some scaling bugs with enemies that some are lucky to have, others like me get to face 200-300 level dudes. Hopefully we can ride their extremely easy ride with extra rubber banding to the one reward most of us actually want. . .
  • TazFTW
    TazFTW Posts: 695 Critical Contributor
    MoStorm, Beast, Devil Dino...

    Two Tiny arms made two match-5s and then got nailed with a powered up Animal Inside.
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    LoreNYC wrote:
    There's also some scaling bugs with enemies that some are lucky to have, others like me get to face 200-300 level dudes. Hopefully we can ride their extremely easy ride with extra rubber banding to the one reward most of us actually want. . .

    The level 300 stuff isn't that bad if The Hood didn't insist on tanking everything and then immediately die. Well, Blade and Daken tends to own him too, but even without that, that extra +30 levels on The Hood really sucks. Maybe they'll take lesson from this and nerf The Hood by giving him a permanent 30 level bonus!
  • Unknown
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    Most people will be able to get 160k with some effort.
  • Unknown
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    Phantron wrote:
    LoreNYC wrote:
    There's also some scaling bugs with enemies that some are lucky to have, others like me get to face 200-300 level dudes. Hopefully we can ride their extremely easy ride with extra rubber banding to the one reward most of us actually want. . .

    The level 300 stuff isn't that bad if The Hood didn't insist on tanking everything and then immediately die. Well, Blade and Daken tends to own him too, but even without that, that extra +30 levels on The Hood really sucks. Maybe they'll take lesson from this and nerf The Hood by giving him a permanent 30 level bonus!

    Are you going to continue complaining about Hood tanking when he gets the 90 level boost later in the event? The good thing about having an under levelled (or in my case a second Hood still at level 40) is that you avoid the tanking issue when he's boosted.
  • ClydeFrog76
    ClydeFrog76 Posts: 1,350 Chairperson of the Boards
    The LThor/GSBW/Deadpool essential node in Hard is a bit of a byatch.
  • Unknown
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    My bracket leader is up to 63k already, so it's definitely looking like with a bit of play we should all get there. I'm sitting at 39k (and 13th place) currently, should hit the 42 or so very easily in the next hour when I do another essentials clear. I've done a full clear once each, and essentials a total of maybe 4-5 times, some of them doubles before bed or work.

    Hopefully I end the sub closer to 50k so that I can continue to play lazily throughout the next two subs. Love me some Simulator. Even when the essential nodes get a bit nasty on hard mode (which they have).
  • fmftint
    fmftint Posts: 3,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    ClydeFrog76 wrote:
    The LThor/GSBW/Deadpool essential node in Hard is a bit of a byatch.
    Love using whales
    Hate being on the receiving end of it
  • Unknown
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    My wife and I are finding this event difficult and unfun. After a stressful season we were hoping for a laid back week before the next season started.

    The 160k seems out of reach for the only 3*, why not add another 3* as a progress reward along the way. Maybe one like The Hood that most veteran players have but newer players could use.
  • ClydeFrog76
    ClydeFrog76 Posts: 1,350 Chairperson of the Boards
    Haven't even seen Whales, I've just been on the receiving end of bullpoop cascades followed by Deceptive Tactics and a hella OP Sniper Rifle icon_rolleyes.gif
  • Unknown
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    I love PVE but HATE this kind of design....all buffs go to 3star character....what the **** those 166 teams need buff anymore?
  • Oldboy
    Oldboy Posts: 452 Mover and Shaker
    They need buffs cos they have lvl 300+ enemies
  • orbitalint
    orbitalint Posts: 511 Critical Contributor
    Are team ups fixed on nodes? This is like the 3rd time in a row of the iw essential node on easy track that had falcon bird strike.

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